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Social Bookmarking
What is it?
Social Bookmarking refers to storing, sorting, classifying, sharing, and searching through a collection of bookmarked links of web pages, images, videos, and audio files that are stored on the Internet. The categorization and review of links creates a folksonomy of information that the user and other users can view on the Internet. Social Bookmarking is done via a hosting website such as Del.icio.us, Furl, Netvouz, Ma.gnolia, and Bluedot.
Social Bookmarking
What are the educational uses and benefits?
Communication
- Allows people with similar interests to create communities of users and thus influence resource tags.
- Allows instructors and students to access information in a particular framework or context to share with peers and colleagues.
Research
- Allows for the classification of information based on a person's perspective and based on organizational structures.
- Provides a constantly evolving list of resources.
Social Bookmarking
Can I see an example?
View a flash animation of how to use a social bookmarking site.
View an example of a Social Bookmarking Site
Social Bookmarking
How do I get started?
- Social Bookmarking sites require that you have a username and password in order to save your bookmarks and recommend resources to others.
- After you join a Social Bookmarking service and obtain a username and password you will have to download a browser extension or some software.
- To save a website resource for later use click on the icon that represents your Social Bookmarking program. For example, the icon for del.icio.us looks like this: (insert image of del,icio.us icon)
- A window will pop up allowing you to put your resources in various tags, insert information about the resource, and send the resource to others.
- In order to send information to others they must be a part of your “network.” This can be done by inviting another user to join your network. Once they are a part of your network you can make recommendations to them.
- The Social Bookmarking program will file your resource in accordance with the tags you selected. In order to retrieve the resource click on the tag under which it has been saved.
Social Bookmarking
Where can I learn more?
- 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking: A pdf article discussion the educational benefits and uses of Social Bookmarking.
- Social Bookmarking Tools: An explanation of Social Bookmarking, ideas for uses of Social Bookmarking in the classroom, and links.
- Top 5 Social Bookmarking Services: An article outlining what to look for in a Social Bookmarking service.
- Wikipedia: Social Bookmarking: A detailed description of Social Bookmarking including advanatages and disadvantages and links.
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